Thank you, Mr. Chairman; and thank you all very much for being with us today.

I've been reading your ideas for some time now and have always found them very interesting. In my simple terms, you agree that climate change is real and it's manmade but the costs to stop or significantly slow this is much greater than the cost to simply adapt to it.

I think it is something that has gotten so bad now--again, one in three workers needing government permission to work, up from one in 20 in the 1950s--that it does need some sort of federal involvement, or at least federal prodding.

the great promise of advanced biofuels rather than simple corn ethanol

the massive cost that U.S. taxpayers pay every year to defend these shipping lanes included in the price of oil?

The greatest challenge of this generation--climate change--requires innovative solutions if we ever hope to make a meaningful difference.

six out of 35 actually seems like an awful lot to me

I just want to say that that's nuts.

And so I appreciate the testimony of everybody. I understand this is hard and it can be expensive, but the rewards are substantial as well, and that's not been so clear today.

We're about to sell 17 million new cars in America this year, and manufacturers and dealers are having all-time profit years.

Let me point out that the NOAA satellites were billions of dollars overrun back during the Bush Administration.